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Originally Posted by Wednighter
Charlie what book are you reading?
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Quietus, by Vivian Schilling.
Basically, four people survive a private plane crash. The main character remembers that, although she was supposedly trapped in the wreckage, she also wandered around the frozen woods and spoke with one of the dead passengers. After recovering from her injuries she starts having thoughts that she and the other survivors were supposed to have died in the crash--not lived.
Schilling puts forth the argument that those near-death experiences (where an angel or a dead loved one comes and takes you away peacefuilly with no pain toward a bright light) are actually something else. Something far more sinister.
Those "angels" are actually the souls of the damned. They have been condemned to take on and personally experience the pain of the dying person, over and over again throughout all eternity, so the souls of the believers can experience their deaths without pain.
And the plot of the book is that she (the main character)
was supposed to have died. But no one believes her.
Side plots involve the main character's husband, who starts a downward spiral, drinking and gambling away all their money; her best friend who is so afraid she was supposed to die that she hypers herself into a massive stroke and coronary; one of the lawyers on the plane commits suicide. Best friend's husband was blinded during the crash, he's an artist and battles depression and fears his wife is working herself up to commit suicide.
It's an interesting novel.
Especially when you find out there is a connection between the main character and her 'Angel of Death.'